Rufous-booted Racket-tail vs Sooty Barbthroat

Ocreatus addae dibandingkan dengan Threnetes niger

Side-by-Side Comparison

Atribut Rufous-booted Racket-tail Sooty Barbthroat
Nama Ilmiah Ocreatus addae Threnetes niger
Ordo Caprimulgiformes Caprimulgiformes
Famili Trochilidae Trochilidae
Status Konservasi Not Evaluated Least Concern
Panjang
Rentang Sayap 11,8 cm (4.6 in)
Berat 3,0 g (0.11 oz) 5,8 g (0.20 oz)
Diet Nectarivore of Bolivian and Peruvian cloud forest; visits Ericaceae and bromeliads. Gleans small insects from … Primarily nectarivore visiting tubular flowers; supplements diet with small insects and spiders for protein.
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Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

Habitat Bersama

Rufous-booted Racket-tail only

None

Sooty Barbthroat only

Song & Call Comparison

Rufous-booted Racket-tail

Kicauan

Deep, resonant hum barely audible; extremely low vibration barely perceptible during hovering near high-altitude flowers.

Sooty Barbthroat

Kicauan

Melodic, descending whistle with rich timbre; smooth pure tone dropping gracefully through several semitones then fading.

Geographic Range & Migration

Rufous-booted Racket-tail

Found in cloud forests of northern Bolivia and adjacent Peru and Brazil at 400–1,400 m elevation.

Sooty Barbthroat

Found in a restricted range in northeastern Brazil and adjacent French Guiana. Resident in coastal rainforest. Rare and locally distributed.

Status Konservasi

Not Evaluated

Rufous-booted Racket-tail

Least Concern

Sooty Barbthroat

How to Tell Them Apart

Rufous-booted Racket-tail

Sooty Barbthroat

Bulu

Dark sooty-brown and green upperparts; sooty-dark throat and breast; belly pale grey-buff; tail dark with pale tip; Guiana region endemic; distinctly darker and sootier below than other barbthroats with heavily …

About These Birds

Rufous-booted Racket-tail

A small hummingbird (8-10 cm plus tail rackets) found in Andean cloud forests of southeastern Peru and Bolivia at 1,200-2,200 m. Males have rufous leg puffs instead of white. Recently split from Booted Racket-tail. Nectarivore of montane forest undergrowth.

Sooty Barbthroat

A medium-sized hummingbird (10-12 cm) found in humid lowland forests of the eastern Amazon basin and the Guianas. Dark sooty-green plumage. Nectarivore of dense forest undergrowth. One of the least known hermit hummingbirds due to its restricted range in remote forests.

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